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Copyright © 2007 Jack R. Lander, 949A Heritage Village,Southbury, CT 06488, 203-264-1130 Jack@Inventor-mentor.com

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Finding the Goose that Lays the Golden Egg
(well, silver or bronze maybe.)

by Jack Lander

Many of the hundreds of inventions and great ideas that I evaluate, although clever and innovative, aren’t likely to get to market, (that is, get licensed or produced and sold). The main reason that inventors invent things that fail to earn them more money than they spend is this: The creative mind works intuitively, not analytically. This is not a criticism of the inventor. (I am one, after all.) I’m simply saying that the creative mind thinks differently than the entrepreneurial mind. You might say that the order in which the inventor’s mind thinks is upside down compared with the entrepreneurial mind.

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Jack has written a popular featured column for Inventors’ Digest magazine for the past eight years, and served as the invention development and manufacturing expert for Entrepreneur.com, the Internet arm of Entrepreneur magazine. He has also written and published a book on job searching, and was commissioned to write Make Money by Moonlighting by Ted Nicholas of Entrepreneur Publishing Co. He produced and edited THE Inventor’s Master Plan for the United Inventors Association, and authored the chapter on prototyping for Don Debelak’s book, Think Big.

He has served as President of the prestigious United Inventors Association, a not-for-profit umbrella organization that helps inventor networking groups and inventors throughout North America. He presently serves his ninth year as Vice President of the (not-for-profit) Yankee Invention Exposition and Yankee Entrepreneur Workshops, held each October in Waterbury, Connecticut. (more…)

Many of the inventors I work with complain that their prototype didn’t meet their expectations. In almost every case the problem is traceable to communications. The inventor didn’t design the prototype, but left a large part of that task to the prototyper.

An invention is not fully designed until you’ve created a drawing that can be used to communicate all of its features to a remotely located prototyper, and person can produce your invention without further need to contact you, and the resulting prototype is exactly as you imagined it would be.

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